Remedy

Characteristics Symptoms

Patient Worse by

Patient Better by

Suits scrofulous children, especially if they are backward mentally and physically, are dwarfish, do not grow and develop, have scrofulous ophthalmia, swollen abdomen, take cold easily, and then always have swollen tonsils.

Very averse to meeting strangers

Loss of memory, mental weakness

Irresolute

Lost confidence in himself

Confusion

Bashful

Childish; grief over trifles

Diminished desire and premature impotence

Enlarged prostate

Testicles indurated

Before menses, pain in stomach and small of back

Menses scanty

Talking in sleep; awakens frequently; feels too hot

Twitching during sleep

While thinking of symptoms

From washing

Lying on painful side

 Numbness and crawling

Tendency to perspiration and glandular enlargement

Peevish, forgetful; after grief and vexation

Always wants to go somewhere

Craving for bacon, ham, salted or smoked meats

Much flatulence

Great hunger with thirst flatulence temporarily relieved by sour eructations

Heartburn

Menses too early, excessive, and bright in girls; if late, blood is dark; sometimes, first bright, then dark, with violent backache

Leucorrhœa, like white of egg

Melting snow

From any change of weather

Warm, dry atmosphere

Ebullitions of heat, dislike of water, dry and hard hair and skin, red orifices, sinking feeling at stomach about 11 am, and cat-nap sleep

Dirty, filthy people, prone to skin affections

Aversion to being washed

General offensive character of discharge and exhalations

Very red lips and face, flushing easily

Very forgetful

Difficult thinking

Delusions; thinks rags beautiful things-that he is immensely wealthy

Busy all the time

Childish peevishness in grown people

Irritable

Affections vitiated; very selfish, no regard for others

Averse to business; loafs-too lazy to arouse himself

Imagining giving wrong things to people, causing their death

Nearly always irritable, depressed, thin and weak, even with good appetite

Complete loss of, or excessive appetite

Putrid eructation

Food tastes too salty

Drinks much, eats little

Milk disagrees

Great desire for sweets

Great acidity, sour eructation

Very weak and faint about 11 am; must have something to eat

Water fills the patient up

Frequent micturition, especially at night.

Must hurry, sudden call to urinate

Great quantities of colorless urine

Involuntary emissions

Organs cold, relaxed and powerless

Pudenda itches

Vagina burns

Much offensive perspiration

Menses too late, short, scanty, and difficult; thick, black, acrid, making parts sore

Menses preceded by headache or suddenly stopped

Leucorrhœa, burning, excoriating

Nipples cracked; smart and burn

Cannot walk erect; stoop-shouldered

Talks, jerks, and twitches during sleep

Vivid dreams

Wakes up singing

Wakes frequently, and becomes wide awake suddenly

Catnaps; slightest noise awakens

Cannot sleep between 2 an 5 am

When standing

Warmth in bed

Washing

Bathing

In morning

11 am

Night

From alcoholic stimulants

Periodically

Lying on right side

From drawing up affected limbs

Increased tension of pulse

Icy coldness of body, with paralysis

Voluntary muscular power gone but perfectly sensible

General feeling of lassitude in the morning, especially weakness of the legs, with muscular stiffness

Children who go around with their mouth open and who talk through the nose

Stupid-appearing, hard of hearing

Increased local and general perspiration

Swelling of glands

Scrofulous and rachitic conditions

Gets out of breath easily

A jaded state, mental or physical, due to overwork

Pituitary and thyroid dysfunction.

Persons of scrofulous type, who take cold easily, with increased mucous secretions, children who grow fat, are large-bellied, with large head, pale skin, chalky look

Great sensitiveness to cold; partial sweats

children crave eggs and eat dirt and other indigestible things; are prone to diarrhœa

Patient is fat, fair, flabby and perspiring and cold, damp and sour

Forgetful, confused, low-spirited

Anxiety with palpitation

Obstinacy; slight mental effort produces hot head

Averse to work or exertion

Aversion to meat, boiled things; craving for indigestible things-chalk, coal, pencils; also for eggs, salt and sweets

Milk disagrees

Frequent sour eructations; sour vomiting

Dislike of fat

Loss of appetite when overworked

Heartburn and loud belching.

Ravenous hunger

Repugnance to hot food

 Thirst; longing for cold drinks

Frequent emissions; increased desire; semen emitted too soon

Menses too early, too profuse, too long, with vertigo, toothache and cold, damp feet; the least excitement causes their return

Leucorrhœa, milky

Increased sexual desire; easy conception

Ideas crowding in her mind prevent sleep

Horrid visions when opening eyes

Starts at every noise; fears that she will go crazy

Drowsy in early part of evening

Frequent waking at night

Same disagreeable idea always arouses from light slumber

Night terrors

Dreams of the dead

Ascending

Cold in every form

Water

Washing

Moist air

Wet weather

During full moon

Standing

While eating

Lying on painful side

Lack of vital heat

Diarrhœa every four to six weeks

Sensory difficulties in limbs.

Diminished sensibility of arms, hands and feet

Sluggishness of mind

Desire lost, parts atrophied

Frequent profuse emissions

Fingers swollen, insensible, rigid, stiff. Gait unsteady, tottering; worse in dark. Feet insensible

Deep morning sleep with anxious, vexatious dreams

Bathing

Warm, damp, weather

State of collapse and trembling all over

 Intensity of all sensations

Weak memory; loses the thread of conversation

Cannot speak without weeping

Time passes too slowly

Is in a great hurry

Hopeless of recovery

Difficult concentration

Fears going insane

Nervous, restless

Fear in the dark and of some one behind her

Coppery taste and eructations of sulphuretted hydrogen

Ravenous hunger soon after eating

Very thirsty

Cravings for liquor, salt, sweets, etc, warm drinks

Menses offensive, profuse, dark, clotted; stains difficult to wash out, urinates frequently at that time

Sensitive spot near os uteri

Leucorrhœa thin, acrid, excoriating, fishy odor

Sycotic warts on genitals

Sterility

Nocturnal emissions, followed by great weakness

Impotence

Dreams she is drinking

Sleeps in knee-chest position

From daylight to sunset

Heat

Inland

Lying on stomach

Damp weather

Lassitude

Atrophy of infants; emaciation with hot hands and head; restless and feverish at night

Yellowness

Children who cannot take milk

Diseases of bones, caries and necrosis.

Keloid growth

Scrofulous, rachitic children, with large head open fontanelles and sutures, distended abdomen, slow in walking

Patient is cold, chilly, hugs the fire, wants plenty warm clothing, hates drafts, hands and feet cold,

Lack of vital heat

Prostration of mind and body

Great sensitiveness to taking cold

Intolerance of alcoholic stimulants

Want of grit, moral or physical

Yielding, faint-hearted, anxious

Nervous and excitable

Sensitive to all impressions

Brain-fag

Obstinate, headstrong children

Abstracted

Fixed ideas; thinks only of pins, fears them, searches and counts them

Disgust for meat and warm food.

Want of appetite; thirst excessive

Sour eructations after eating

Elephantiasis of scrotum

Sexual erethism; nocturnal emissions

Hydrocele

A milky, acrid leucorrhœa, during urination

Increased menses, with paroxysms of icy coldness over whole body

Night-walking; gets up while asleep

Sleeplessness, with great orgasm of blood and heat in head

Frequent starts in sleep

Anxious dreams

Excessive gaping

In morning

From washing

During menses

Uncovering

Lying down

Damp

Lying on

Left side

Cold

worse in winter

Wrapping up head

Summer

In wet or humid weather

Hungry with much thirst

Great debility, the slightest effort induces perspiration. Iodum individual is exceedingly thin, dark complexioned, with enlarged lymphatic glands, has voracious appetite but gets thin

All glandular structures, respiratory organs, circulatory system are especially affected; they atrophy.

Tremor

Craves cold air.

Sluggish vital reaction, hence chronicity in many of its aspects

Wasting diseases

Is warm, and wants cool surroundings

Weakness and loss of breath going upstairs

Sudden impulse to run and do violence

Forgetful

Must be busy

Fear of people, shuns every one

Suicidal tendency

Ravenous hunger and much thirst

Empty eructations, as if every particle of food were turned into gas

Anxious and worried if he does not eat

Frequent and copious, dark yellow-green, thick, acrid with cuticle on surface

Testicles swollen and indurated

Hydrocele

Loss of sexual power, with atrophied testes

Great weakness during menses; menstruation irregular.

Dwindling of mammary glands

Acrid leucorrhœa, thick, slimy, corroding the linen

In warm room

Right side

In open air

After eating

Atony

Malnutrition

Older persons, where the skin shows yellowish spots, earthy complexion, uric acid diathesis, etc; also precocious, weakly children

Intolerant of cold drinks; craves everything warm

Best adapted to persons intellectually keen, but of weak, muscular power

Deep-seated, progressive, chronic diseases

Emaciation

Debility in morning

Pre-senility

Patient is thin, withered, full of gas and dry

Lacks vital heat; has poor circulation, cold extremities

Pains come and go suddenly

Sensitive to noise and odors

Little things annoy, Extremely sensitive

Averse to undertaking new things

Loss of self-confidence

Hurried when eating

Constant fear of breaking down under stress

Apprehensive

Weak memory, confused thoughts; spells or writes wrong words and syllables

Failing brain-power

Cannot bear to see anything new

Cannot read what he writes

Sadness in morning on awaking

Grayish-yellow color of face, with blue circles around eyes

Withered, shriveled, and emaciated; copper-colored eruption

Dyspepsia due to farinaceous and fermentable food, cabbage, beans, etc

Excessive hunger

Aversion to bread, etc

Desire for sweet things

Food tastes sour

Sour eructations

Great weakness of digestion

Eating ever so little creates fullness

Cannot eat oysters

Rolling of flatulence

Wakes at night feeling hungry.

Incomplete burning eructations rise only to pharynx there burn for hours

Likes to take food and drink hot

Polyuria during the night; heavy red sediment in urine

No erectile power; impotence; premature emission

Menses too late; last too long, too profuse

Coition painful

Leucorrhœa, acrid, with burning in vagina

Drowsy during day

Starting in sleep

Dreams of accidents

From right to left

From above downward

4 to 8 pm

From heat or warm room, hot air, bed

Warm applications, except throat and stomach which are better from warm drinks

After midnight

From warm food and drink

On getting cold

From being uncovered

Tremors everywhere

Weakness with ebullitions and tremblings from least exertion

Complaints increase with the sweat and rest; all associated with a great deal of weariness, prostration, and trembling

A human "thermometer"; sensitive to heat and cold

Breath, excretions and body smell foul

Tendency to formation of pus, which is thin, greenish, putrid; streaked with thin blood

Slow in answering questions

Memory weakened, and loss of will-power

Weary of life. Mistrustful

Thinks he is losing his reason

Putrid eructations

Intense thirst for cold drinks

Weak digestion, with continuous hunger

Cold genitals

Nocturnal emissions, stained with blood

Menses profuse, with abdominal pains

Leucorrhœa excoriating, greenish and bloody; sensation of rawness in parts

Wet, damp weather

Lying on right side

Perspiring

Warm room and warm bed

From damp, cold, rainy weather

An anæmic condition, coldness, numbness, petechiæ, mortification, gangrene

For old people with shriveled skin-thin, scrawny old women.

Whole body is pervaded by a sense of great heat

Hæmorrhages; continued oozing; thin, fetid, watery black blood

Debility, anxiety, emaciation, though appetite and thirst may be excessive

Facial and abdominal muscles twitch

Face pale, pinched, sunken

Unnatural ravenous appetite; craves acids

Thirst unquenchable

Eructations of bad odor

Brownish, offensive leucorrhœa

Menses irregular, copious, dark; continuous oozing of watery blood until next period

Sleep profound and long

Trembling, staggering gait

Fingers and feet bluish, shriveled, spread apart or bent backwards, numb

Warm covering

Uncovering

Rubbing

Stretching out limbs

 The word "fag" covers a large part of zinc action

 Tissues are worn out faster than they are repaired

Defective vitality

Weak memory

Very sensitive to noise

Averse to work, to talk

Child repeats everything said to it

Fears arrest on account of a supposed crime

Lethargic, stupid

Cannot stand smallest quantity of wine

Ravenous hunger about 11 am

Great greediness when eating; cannot eat fast enough

Can only void urine when sitting bent backwards

Involuntary urination when walking, coughing or sneezing

Testicles swelled, drawn up

Erections violent

Menses too late, suppressed; menses flow more at night

Feet in continued motion; cannot keep still

Large varicose veins on legs

Cries out during sleep; body jerks; wakes frightened, stared

Nervous motion of feet when asleep

Loud screaming out at night in sleep without being aware of it

From touch

Between 5 to 7 pm

After dinner

From wine

Discharges

Appearance of eruptions

During menstrual flow